Sunday, September 26, 2010

VMware is ditching ESX for ESXi which is smaller and, best of all, free. I have been running ESX 4.0 as a virtual machine in Windows using VMware Workstation for some time now but was never able to get ESXi to run as a virtual machine. One of the students in the SANS Security 577: Virtualization Security Fundamentals class asked me if it was possible to run ESXi on VMware Workstation. Which made me wonder, now that ESXi will be the main hypervisor being pushed by VMware, would it be possible?